Quality, safety and sustainability in food distribution: a review of quantitative operations management approaches and challenges

By Renzo Akkerman, Poorya Farahani, Martin Grunow. OR Spectr., 2010

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Subfields: Food Science, Strategy and Management

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Two-echelon multiple-vehicle location-routing problem with time windows for optimization of sustainable supply chain network of perishable food (2014, background): “Consideration of perishability in the supply chain has received increased attention in both practice and academic researches (Ahumada and Villalobos, 2009; Akkerman et al., 2010).”
Modelling food logistics networks with emission considerations: The case of an international beef supply chain (2014, background): “Accordingly, literature review shows that there is a need for models that are able to deal with the key challenges in managing quality and sustainability (Akkerman et al., 2010; Soysal et al., 2012).”
Competitive food supply chain networks with application to fresh produce (2013, background): “…the entire supply chain until the points of final consumption (see Sloof, Tijskens, and Wilkinson (1996), van der Vorst (2000), Lowe and Preckel (2004), Ahumada and Villalobos (2009), Blackburn and Scudder (2009), Akkerman, Farahani, and Grunow (2010), and Aiello, La Scalia, and Micale (2012)).”
An agri-food supply chain traceability system for China based on RFID & blockchain technology (2016, unknown): “, 2010)[7].”
Modeling for the equitable and effective distribution of donated food under capacity constraints (2016, background): “Although there are many studies of for-profit food supply chains (Ahumada and Villalobos, 2009; Akkerman et al., 2010), few studies address nonprofit food distribution supply chains.”
A Review on Quantitative Models for Sustainable Food Logistics Management (2012, background): “(Akkerman et al., 2010) (Blackburn and Scudder, 2009) (Dabbene et al.”
Firm size and sustainable performance in food supply chains: Insights from Greek SMEs (2014, background): “, 2007) and co-modal freight planning systems (Akkerman et al., 2010).”
The prospects of zero-packaging grocery stores to improve the social and environmental impacts of the food supply chain (2017, background): “Although generalisations should be 6 made with caution, seasonal and native foods usually have lower carbon foot 7 prints (Akkerman et al., 2010; Saunders and Barber, 2008; Sim et al., 2007; 8 Weber and Matthews, 2008; Wilson, 2007).”